[cambalache]

Because the American mainstream left became bananas. The Democratic and Republican parties would still be right-wing/conservative all across the world except in America, but the woke/sjw/faang crowd is socially hard-left also all across the world (not in economics or international politics, they are very conservative there,even hawkish). So, for example, me, a very leftist third world person has now more in common with your average mid-westerner republican than with a coastal google employee.

[saila]

Your average Republican is going to be more authoritarian-leaning and hawkish than the not-actually-left FAANG caricature you're describing.

Republicans are pretty unlikely to support such leftist notions as democratizing the means of production, whereas your average FAANG employee just might.